#988039 consolation: is scrolling still expected to work?

Package:
consolation
Source:
consolation
Description:
linux console pointer support for copy-paste
Submitter:
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Date:
2021-05-04 13:12:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#988039#5
Date:
2021-05-04 02:11:58 UTC
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Hey there.

First, awesome tool, work so much nicer than gpm...
this should be made more well known :-)


But 2nd, is scorlling still expected to work?
When in debug mode, I actually see that it recognises
my two-finger scrolling (despite not having set
--set-scroll-method=twofinger btw), but just nothing
happens?


I stumbled across that LWN post in which you've also
commended.
Was that finally removed from the kernel?


Cheers,
Chris.

btw: Tapping does not seem to work out of the box,
I do need to set the --enable-tap .

#988039#10
Date:
2021-05-04 12:02:27 UTC
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To:
Thanks Christoph!

Yes, as I understand, the ioctl was disabled in the kernel at some point,
I cannot do much about it. It still works with the current Debian
stable kernel.

You can check by trying 'shift-page up / shift-page down'.
If it does not scroll, then scrolling is disabled.

Yes, consolation keep the libinput default behavior.

Cheers,

#988039#15
Date:
2021-05-04 13:09:13 UTC
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To:
sadly :-(
Nah, that already stopped working in sid... I just wasn't 100% that
it's actually the same.


Maybe it makes sense to add that to the manpage/description, so that
people don't ask you in the future ;-)


Cheers,
Chris.